Back in Stockholm after a recording session. Its been a wonderful week in beautiful, but rainy Ångermanland. And working with a solo project is a magic thing. Or in other words - you need to try to keep up the magic when you work with a solo project! When working together with other musicians, in the meeting, with the music, in the space between you - magic sometimes appear, and that is usually more easy because it multiplies.

In this recording - trying to capture my solo performance ”ReBoot/OmStart” on CD - it’s been my main focus to try to imagine you, the audience, even if I’m solo. Because this is music that is very much about timing, communication and a music that really needs the meeting, an audience. The music is all about the small variations in the music that occure when communicating with the audience.

We’ve been trying to capture some of this feeling in the recording by making it in one suite - just like the performance, fifty minutes. With only minor cuts that has to been done because of a distant tractor disturbing the silence. After the first suite recording – listning with ”big ears” and then - rerecording some songs that needed to be recorded again, sometimes because the feeling wasn’t ritght or for some irritating hicups that easaly CAN appear in this kind of situation. We, my excellent sound engineer Martin von Schmalensee at Mahogny Studios, have been working this way and slowly, slowly recorded the whole perfomance, both as a whole piece but at the same time as separate tracks on a CD.

In february or maybe a bit later the CD will be ready for release and at the same time hopefully some performances in Stockholm and elsewhere will follow .

The silent autumn, the moist weather, the cosy and warm feeling at Martin and Ulrikas home (where the studio is situated), some good food, focused working climate... For me, all that felt like it was working in the right direction for a good recording – hopefully I’m right about my feeling!